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The Terrestrialization of Amphibious Life in a Danube Delta 'Town on Water'
The Danube Delta town of Vilkovo is often called the ‘Ukrainian Venice’ because of its 40 kilometers of canals. Many of these canals, however, are rapidly filling in with silt and are often impassible by boat.
Tanya Richardson
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Lobbying of commercial diplomats: institutional setting as a determining factor [PDF]
The aim of this research is to contribute to the understanding of how commercial diplomats lobby for public procurement contracts. The institutional environment has ramifications for the manner of lobbying and for the practice of commercial diplomacy ...
Bondarouk, T.V., Ruel, H.J.M.
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Beef and Plant Protein: Stronger Together [PDF]
Governments should look at the beef and plant protein industries as one protein market with multiple commodities, say participants at a protein industry roundtable held recently at the University of Calgary.
Emma Windfeld +3 more
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Background Funds for community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programs are short-term in nature. CMAM programs are implemented in countries with weak policies and health systems and are primarily funded by donors.
Andre M. N. Renzaho +4 more
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Cross-Border Country Planning Dialogue in Interwar Europe
The past years witnessed many publications on the roles of transnational expert networks in defining new professional fields and lobbying for social reform in the first half of the 20th century. The modern spatial planning profession, still in a stage of
Michel Geertse
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The article is devoted to the analysis of the process of lobbying regional interests in terms of financing the anniversary infrastructure dedicated to the celebration of the 850th anniversary of the city of Vladimir in 1958.
Yuri S. Nikiforov
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The business-social policy nexus: Corporate power and corporate inputs into social policy [PDF]
It is increasingly impossible to understand and explain the shape and delivery of contemporary social policy unless we consider the role of business. Several factors have been at work here.
Farnsworth, K, Holden, C
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Mining from a conflicting to a collaborative activity: Review of literature
This article states that the confrontational attitude between local communities pushed by lobbying groups, eventually with the support of local governments, and mining companies can be turned into a corporate communication and cooperation model.
Jan Feyen +2 more
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Gaps in state funding mean that liberal cities in conservative states are more likely to lobby the federal government [PDF]
When we hear the term 'lobbying' we tend to think mostly in terms of corporations and ideological groups working to influence policy outcomes at the state and federal level. But cities are often lobbyists too.
Goldstein, Rebecca, Young You, Hye
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ABSTRACT The role of business towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been well established. However, SDG contextualization continues to pose a conundrum, particularly for firms operating in multiple contexts. This becomes even more problematic in the case of SDG 11, the only goal in the sustainable development agenda directly
Andreas Georgiou
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